Evan Samek Email & Phone Number

Remote, Us

Leading CrowdStrike’s future Design System strategy and the Design System Team to bring in a new era of experiences for The Falcon Platform.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Happy to be an official mentor on ADPList, providing mentorship on everything from the craft of product design to navigating organizational psychology within a product development team. I love connecting with new folks and providing my experience to new product designers. Reach me here: https://adplist.org/mentors/evan-samek

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Promoted by leadership to be the first Principal UX Designer at Rapid7. Tasked with bringing cloud security capabilities and new solutions to all non-cloud products within Rapid7’s platform.* Mentored with over 85 UX Designers across Rapid7 in cloud technology & security basics.* Led all discovery and lean design efforts for a brand new cloud detection and response solution.* Kicked off AI/Machine Learning projects for generative content for attack path analysis and misconfiguration detections.* Directed a cross-functional team of engineers and designers to create, implement, and iteratively evolve a new, modern design system for Rapid7.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led and hired the international user experience design team for the Cloud Security practice within Rapid7. Responsible for the full product design strategy for the complex cloud security product “InsightCloudSec”.* Hired & managed 4 UX Design direct reports across the US, Ireland, and Israel. * Created the foundational experience design for 5 critical 2022-23 net new features for InsightCloudSec, increasing POC confidence for sales teams and retention of ~160 enterprise customers.* Mentored 5 Product Managers, 30+ Engineers team of to adopt agile Human Centered Design best practices resulting in more consistent and engaging experiences across a ~150+ prod-dev organization.* Developed strategy to adopt and grow Rapid7's internal design system for InsightCloudSec, increasing cross-company collaboration by 100%+.

Promoted to officially hire and build out the processes of the user experience team. Responsible for integrating user experience best practices across the product-development organization.* Increased UX & front-end engineering implementation speed by 300% implementing the first design system.* Led Product Managers, Engineers, and a team of 2 UX Designers to rapidly design, build, and ship key features that resulted in a $145m acquisition by Rapid7.* Hired & managed a team of 2 UX Designers and 1 UI Designer.* Developed the first product analytics strategy and implementation for DivvyCloud resulting in the development of the first OKRs.

Brought on board by the founders of DivvyCloud to infuse user experience and product management practices into a successful engineering team. Hired the first product manager.* Within just 6 months, implemented an entire Agile framework, enhancing collaboration and efficiency.* Created the Product Management and the UX Design Organization from scratch.* Designed using lean UX Design practices for complex features for infrastructure-as-code and identity access management security that led to retaining key Fortune 100 contracts, such as Fannie Mae and Fidelity.

Mclean, Va, Us

Promoted to Senior Product Manager after 5 months as UX Design Lead based on product management background and familiarity directing engineering teams. Collaborated and partnered with an engineering team of ~7 UI, Backend, & QA Engineers.

Mclean, Va, Us

Frederick, Maryland, Us

Promoted and responsible for the entire user experience strategy and direction of all of Fugue’s products after hiring a VP of Product to take over most product management responsibilities.* Led all user experience efforts across 3 distinct products, directing a team of 2 Designers and 2 Engineers.* Collaboratively designed a one-of-a-kind data visualization design language for cloud infrastructure, a key component of Fugue’s acquisition by Snyk.* Led all Product Management processes using Agile for an initial team of ~20 Engineers & 2 Designers.

Frederick, Maryland, Us

Promoted to Director of Product Management after 6 months by CEO due to positive impact on cross-organization processes and collaboration. Managed and mentored 2 junior Technical Product Manager on Agile and Product Management best practices.* Led all Product Management processes using Agile for an initial team of ~20 Engineers & 2 Designers.

Frederick, Maryland, Us

First UX Design hire at Fugue to bring human centered design practices and user experience processes to an engineering-first company. Designed style guide for Fugue’s CLI, the main interface at the time.

Washington, Dc, Us

Led HelloWallet’s user experience strategy across all products, in addition to hiring and managing a diverse UX Team. Worked with behavioral scientists to implement behavior change experiences resulting in better financial outcomes for our users.* Grew & managed the UX team from 1 to a 5 person team including a 1 UX Manager, 3 UX Designers and a 1 UX Researcher.* Mentored Graphic Designers and UI Designers to make the jump into UX Design, further growing the UX Team.* The HelloWallet UX Team was recognized as an essential asset for Morningstar’s acquisition of HelloWallet in 2014 for ~$50M (HelloWallet was sold to KeyBank in 2017).* Created a Google Glass HelloWallet app (augmented reality), led to Google becoming customer.

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsible for creating the core experiences and front end engineering for 3 web apps, 1 iPad App, and a mobile app for both iOS and Android. Worked alongside graphic design team to develop UI Design standards and design systems. Created of complex data-visualization based product features. * Core product won the 2013 Webby Award for best UI/UX of any financial technology product.* Created original design for a retirement planning app that is was in use by major financial institutions, winning Finovate’s 2015 Best in Show. * Developed the first design system for HelloWallet (Dollar DS), increasing visual consistency by 100% and increasing front-end implementation speed by 200%.* Led all UX prototyping efforts, reducing time to value of new features and risk of feature churn.* Collaborated with VP of Engineering on new technology stack changes and exploration.* Lead all teams in UX Engineering. Including prototyping, wire-framing, design, interaction design, information architecture and research.* Specialized in behavior-change design.

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsible for engineering & maintaining HelloWallet's entire front-end technology architecture and UI Design of initial product experiences.

Washington, Dc, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Pixel Dreamer was a company founded by Mac Heller-Ogden and I in 2009.The startup was a Web Development shop that included creating large scale applications and medium sized business marketing sites.Responsible for all business relations, sales, design and implementation work for all the above.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer.Instruments:Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Samplers, Synthesizers, Banjo, Mandolin, Harmonica, Ukelele, Theremin, Balinese Gamelan, Oboe, Clarinet, Soprano SaxophoneSoftware:Logic, Garageband, Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, QuicktimeWork:Film Scoring - Internal, Commercial, Private and Fine Art ComposingSound Design - Creating original sounds for immersive experiencesSongwriting - Previous member of D.C. band "Presto Bando", collaborator with many local D.C. independent musicians.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

Designer & UI DeveloperSocial Media Consultant

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

Worked with engineers on front-end implementation of IT monitoring systems and integration with existing PERL backend solutions.

Ba, Philosophy

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